Live, Search, and Die For It

From the moment we came onto this Earth, we were immediately introduced to the one thing that gave us a reason to live; the thing that we would search endlessly our entire lives; and the one thing we willing give up our entire life for: Love.

As a child, we were led to believe in happily ever afters and that love was easily obtained. We felt that each person in the world had their very own Prince Charming or Cinderella awaiting for them to live out their very own fairytale. As naive as we were, the concept of love was never so simplistic and pure. Love was not dependent on looks, money, or the future, but rather what you felt for someone at that specific moment. We didn’t question it, we just believed in it.

As time passes by, we begin to learn differently. We experience for the first time how love doesn’t only bring good times, but it encompasses how heartbreak feels, how rejection feels, and regret for not taking risks we probably should of but were to scared to take. The confusions of who could be the one, to the fear of not wanting to commit to someone, and to finding someone you want to spend the rest of your life with takes place, and takes over almost every aspect of your life. Our beliefs and opinions of the past are replaced or added on to as we learn how someone looks to what someone does for a living actually matters.

The complexity of love continues to grow as people around the world seem to scurry in different pathways with contrasting understandings of what love is and how to go about it. Some of us will fear love. They will want to postpone the day they feel it, for they are not ready for such a commitment; to be trusted with something so serious. They would much rather have casual relationships, flings, and have fun, until the the day they know that they have prepared themselves enough to not be stupid to let love slip through their fingertips. But they also fear that if they put themselves out there, they will only end up hurt, losing someone they care about, or even worst, not love someone enough and end up hurting them.

Others of us will embrace love. They will go searching for love with the knowledge that what they are looking for is truly the greatest feeling known to man. They constantly put their hearts out there with full knowledge that it may come back to them shattered in a million of pieces, because they believe that the risk is worth taking if they could possibly find ‘the one’. Though many of these people hearts are scarred with the damage of the many times it probably breaks, they learn not to regret it because it’s a step closer to that one person who can make having all those lasting marks of sadness worth it.

Many of us will just stand in our place, confused. Not knowing where to begin for their search for love and unsure if they even want to begin that search. They question why the greatest feeling in the world is in such a contradiction of the heartbreaks and suffering that it brings forth. They question if we are lying to ourselves to believe that there is ‘the one’, or if fate is slowly bring them closer to the person they were always meant to be with. They question why people would live, search, and die for love with such a lack of understanding of it. But maybe that’s the secret to it all, love is to great to understand.That our hearts knows a reason that even reason does not know. That in the bottom of our heart, we know that it’s worth it. That it’s worth to Live, Search, and Die for it.